Who's The Oldest Famous Person Now?

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Helen Lawson is still with us.

Norman Lear

For showbiz people is it Marsha Hunt?

What century?

I Will Survive

R1, guffaw.

Angela Landsbury

Oscar winner Eva Marie Saint b.1924 is 1 year older than Van Dyke. Her credits include Exodus, On the Waterfront, North by Northwest, The Russians are Coming, . . .Loving, Grand Prix, Raintree County, Nothing in Common. She worked with Hitchcock, Kazan, Preminger, Frankenheimer, Brando, Jackie Gleason, Cary Grant, Taylor and Burton, Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Bob Hope, Montgomery Clift, Gregory Peck, Warren Beatty

Bob Barker I would think

Gale Gordon.

[quote] Gale Gordon.

?

Not me.

It was going to be Lucy, but Gary talked her into dying in 1989.

Henry Kissinger

"Helen Lawson is still with us."

Bitch is just like herpes. She never really goes away.

Are you new here, R12?

Barker and Kissinger are both 98

Joyce Randolph, Trixie Norton from "The Honeymooners", is 97.

R8 Lansbury b.1925 In 1962 she played mother to Warren Beatty in All Fall Down and Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate. Harvey was born in 1928 and Beatty in 1937 and Eva Marie Saint a year older than Lansbury played Beatty's love interest in All Fall Down!

Gene Hackman

Here's some info (some of it outdated). Nehemiah Persoff is still alive at 102.

Glenn Close.

Katy Perry

Felix the Cat, 98 and still has a few lives left

Link

Mel Brooks, duh.

[quote]Felix the Cat, 98 and still has a few lives left

Now how exactly does that work? Does it reset after he uses up a life? Or what?

Reporter Andrea Mitchell (according to half of the posters on the MSNBC threads)

Betty Boop

Norman Lear, who has been mentioned, doesn’t appear to have slowed down much.

Mel's only 95. He's a kid!

Janis Paige is 99.

[quote]Janis Paige is 99.

That's the same age as my pageboy haircut

Gale Gordon is the only one who is still working.

Ahem ...... 77 and kicking it still in the studio bitches

Felix the Cat must be the oldest TV star. A revolving statuette of him was used for test broadcasts as early as the 1920s.

Jimmy Carter

Mel is the next 'national treasure', the oldest living EGOT. The rest are niche or b-list.

Not Norman Lear, R39.

R20- Laurence Harvey was quite doable back then.

Norman was never in front of the camera. Mel was.

Justin Trudeau turned 50!!

Neither was Sondheim. R42.

R42 but Lear he's famous and old!

[quote] Lear he's famous and old!

He is a very foolish fond old man.

And he must be fabulously rich, too.

Nehemiah Persoff.

William Shatner's on CNN now. He's the farm team phenom who could hold the title in the future.

Dick Van Dyke is 96 years old and he married again a couple of years ago to a younger chick.

Angela Lansbury is going to kick it next.

A 46-year age difference, R50. But because he's in such great shape, DVD can pull it off.

Oops.

DVD will be celebrate his 10th wedding anniversary in February.

Abe Vigoda.

Mamie van Doren will be 91 in February.

Here's a question: Is Sidney Poitier the last of the Golden Age movie stars. He began before Redford, who I don't think of as Golden Age.

Poitier is not the last of the Golden Age movie stars, though he's one of the few left (along with Margaret O'Brien, Leslie Caron, Shirley MacLaine, Kim Novak, Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Pat Boone, Harry Belafonte, and Joanne Woodward) who starred above the title before 1960.

Other lesser-known or lesser box-office stars back then who are older than Poitier:

Marsha Hunt, 104-first starred in Gentle Julia 1936

Micheline Presle, 99-first starred in Young Girls in Trouble 1939

Janis Paige, 99-first starred in Her Kind of Man 1946

Jimmy Lydon, 98-first starred in Back Door to Heaven(!) 1939

Glynis Johns, 98-first starred in The Halfway House 1944

Eva Marie Saint, 97-first starred in On the Waterfront 1954/That Certain Feeling 1956

June Lockhart, 96-first starred in She-Wolf of London 1946

Angela Lansbury, 96-first starred in The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, 1947

Barbara Rush, 94-first starred in When Worlds Collide, 1951

And those who starred in films before Poitier's first starring role in 1950:

Margaret O'Brien, 84-first starred in Journey for Margaret, 1942

Ann Blyth, 93-first starred in A Woman's Vengeance 1948

Terry Moore, 92-first starred in The Return of October, 1948

From the 50s, Carroll Baker, Patty McCormack, Don Murray, Shirley Jones, Russ Tamblyn, Joan Evans, Piper Laurie, Vera Miles, Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Mamie Van Doren, Claire Bloom, James Darren, Mitzi Gaynor, Gena Rowlands, Marisa Pavan, Colleen Miller, Millie Perkins, Leslie Parrish, Julie Newmar, Debra Paget, Tina Louise, Joan O'Brien, Susan Kohner, and Angie Dickinson are still among us. Brigitte Bardot, Anouk Aimee, Petula Clark and Sylvia Syms also deserve mention as international stars since the 40s/50s.

Madonna.

You're as old as your liver. So Shatner wins.

Best R1 in ages, I spit out my drink. Brava.

Marsha Hunt

Wondering if Madonna will die young and strangely like Michael Jackson and Prince. The narrative is starting to head in that direction.

[quote] Wondering if Madonna will die young

Too late for that.

Faye Dunaway

Is anyone else shocked Betty White was older than Mel Brooks and Dick van Dyke? I guess I never thought about it until now.

r58, you forgot me.

Sorry, Barbara, looks like you just barely got in under the wire.

Goodbye Norman Lear

Though I never knew you at all

You had the grace to hold yourself

While those around you crawled

Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, both aged 87... let's keep them on the chant list somewhere.

Angela is now at the head of the line, no question. Serves her right: she killed all those poor sons of bitches in Cabot Cove. Murder She Hopes, indeed.

[quote]Poitier is not the last of the Golden Age movie stars, though he's one of the few left (along with Margaret O'Brien, Leslie Caron, Shirley MacLaine, Kim Novak, Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Pat Boone, Harry Belafonte, and Joanne Woodward) who starred above the title before 1960.

Anyone want to list their ages?

Leslie Caron must be circling the bowl.

[quote]Wondering if Madonna will die young and strangely like Michael Jackson and Prince.

No, Madonna has always been healthy and exercised. Prince had AIDS (regardless what anyone else says, he did) and Michael Jackson was frail.

R72, Poitier, Belafonte and Lollobrigida are 94; Woodward is 91, Caron is 90, Novak is 88, MacLaine, Boone, and Loren are 87; and Margaret O'Brien is 84.

Chris Salvatore?

[quote]No, Madonna has always been healthy and exercised

google her Jimmy Fallon appearance. Great big fat person now.

Joyce Randolph is 97, she's the last surviving member of the Honeymooners four main performers.

r77

She can lose that in a few months.

Carole Cook will be 98 in two weeks.

wow her husband is still alive too at 93

Barbara Eden is a young 90. She still can get into her Jeannie harem costume.

"Prince had AIDS (regardless what anyone else says, he did) and Michael Jackson was frail."

Both of them had major drug problems which resulted in their premature deaths, not their delicate physical frailties. With the amount of drugs both of them were taking, they could have been healthy as horses and still killed themselves.

R58, great list! Another one is Peggy Dow, who was in Harvey with Jimmy Stewart. I believe she is 93

[quote] Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, both aged 87

For some reason I thought Smith was several years older than Dench.

Mel gibson will die next

I think Madonna is going to die soon. She’s clearly hooked on opioids. She’ll overdo it and be found in a bathtub. Her life now consists entirely of copying the Kardashians, so no reason she shouldn’t copy Whitney too.

R86, stop teasing us!

I could see Madge pulling a Whitney

R87 Madonna is so reductive!

Roger Corman is about 95, I think

No, Madge will pull a Mae West and stay around until she's at least eighty.

The Queen.

R92, can't wait for Madge's remake of Sextette!

Bill Hayes (Doug) of Days of Our Lives is 97 I think.

Amazing that Bob Newhart and Dick Van Dyke are still alive. They were both heavy smokers for decades who didn't quit until late in life.

How old is Yoko? How's she doing?

Yoko's 89th birthday's on February 18th (my birthday, too). The most recent reporting I've seen suggests she's not doing well.

^ Good.

[quote]I could see Madge pulling a Whitney.

One would have to bathe for that to happen.

Yoko is wheelchair-bound. Say what you will about her singing, but she's always had immense style.

R96 Norman Lear was also a big cigar smoker I think. That’s truly the most remarkable case to me. And on top of his advanced age, his net worth has to be north of $200 million, and he still CARES, and is still trying to make a difference. That’s nothing short of amazing to me. I’m sure I will shed a tear or two when he dies.

I believe Dick Van Dyke didn't quit smoking until the late 90s!

Madonna's mother died at age 30 and her father is still alive at age 90. I think she may take more after her father in this regard.

miss julie andrews

Madonna needs to go to a mental institution.

Marsha Hunt is 103.

^ That article is old. She turned 104 in the fall

Earl Holliman and George Maharis turn 94 in 2022

Aren't they both gay? Or am I thinking of Andrew Prine?

r110, no, they're both gay. But Prine is straight

No one knows how old Lee Grant is. She might be 94. She might be 96. THEY DON'T KNOW!

[quote] No one knows how old Lee Grant is. She might be 94. She might be 96. THEY DON'T KNOW!

Her age depends on which part they’re referring to.

Lee Grant is actually 95 but her pussy is 21 thanks to vaginal rejuvenation surgery.

Has anyone tried looking up Lee's real age on Ancestry?

Lots of minor names left but only Angela is the household name still around. Oddly, despite her successful film career, her fame is mainly from theater and TV.

Fashionista Iris Apfel is 100. And she is still fabulous.

Again, minor league, As a household name, only Angie is left.

R117 and all her big 100th birthday celebrations didn’t curse her, luckily.

R118 The question is "Who's the oldest famous person now?", not who is the oldest household name in the U.S. Iris is probably the oldest living famous person in the fashion world.

People famous only in "the fashion world" are only that. Not generally famous.

Ask your mother who Iris is,

James Earl Jones is up there

Lee Grant is still spritely — or was last time we saw her.

She amazingly moves like a young person.

Ethel Kennedy FTW!

Clint Eastwood is 91.

Good grief, you all missed the most famous old person BY FAR!

Can anyone find a copy of Her Majesty's Blackglama ad with her famous high kick?

Probably already mentioned...Marsha Hunt at 104.

Marla Gibbs is still alive and kicking.

See R93, R126.

^^OCD cunt

Kim Novak will be 89 in February.

She isn't famous here in the US, but French actress Renee Simonet - also known as Catherine Deneuve's mother - lived to be 109, nearly 110 years old. I had to look her up - she just died in France this past July.

Whatever, R131, I was only mentioning it because R126 was making a big deal out of it. Otherwise I wouldn't have called it out.

With Betty's passing, the only ones left from this closing number are June Lockhart & Dick Van Dyke.

Golden-age MGM child star Terry Kilburn (Goodbye Mr Chips; A Christmas Carol) is 95

William Daniels (voice of KITT; Mr Mcfeely; THE John Adams in "1776") is 94.

Thread was closed with Marsha Hunt

Yeah, who died and made you Czarina of DL?!

Has anyone bettered that answer, R138?

My Dad is 100.

Lee Grant was born in Oct. 1925

Tippi Hedren will be 92 on Jan.17.

Jane Morgan! She's 97. Back in 1958/9 she charted No. 1 in Britain with this single.

r123, Lou Grant died last year.

Oh, wait!

Don't believe those rumors. .. Generalissimo Francisco Franco is alive and well and will be turning 130 this year.

Has Glenn Close been mentioned?

#merylknew

r140

Well you jinxed him